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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
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Habituex
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x
Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.
Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse
Teeheedious
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: tee/hee/dee/us
Sentence: At first it was charming when the new intern tee heed after every remark the Director said - now it is just teeheedious.
Etymology: Tee Hee + tedious
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COMMENTS:
hee-larious - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:56:00
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Quirkedout
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: qwerked-out
Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.
Etymology: quirk + past tense + out
Conpeeve
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve
Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.
Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)
Jiltrait
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)
Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.
Etymology: jilt + trait
Divugnance
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.
Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.
Thornication
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: θôrnikāshən
Sentence: Charlie is very good at getting under the skin of his co-workers. He doesn’t mean to be annoying but his habitual activities amount to thornication.
Etymology: thorn (a thorn in someone’s side - a source of continual annoyance or trouble) + fornication (two people not married to each other having sex)
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COMMENTS:
love it...so prickly! - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:55:00
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Vexappeal
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vex ap peel
Sentence: Rodney's bad habits were finally starting to grate on Stephanie. His sex appeal had long since become a vexappeal for her. She should have known when he told her that his family motto was, "You can pick your nose, but n ot your relatives..."
Etymology: Vex (irk, annoy) & Appeal (attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates) Wordplay on Sex appeal (attractiveness to the opposite sex)
Ewsik
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: EEeeeeeeewwwwww SICK!
Sentence: Julie's ewsik has gotten to the point that every time she clears her throat I wanna grab her by the hair and smash her face in. "I think it's cute." You would. She's all yours.
Etymology: My xgf used to say eww sick all the time.
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COMMENTS:
ew rock! - Nosila, 2009-09-10: 01:50:00
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Thornnoy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: thawr-noi
Sentence: She used to call him by his given name, Roy. Now because of his thornnoying habits she doesn't call him at all.
Etymology: thorn (something that wounds, annoys, or causes discomfort) + annoy (irritate, upset )
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.